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Arquitectura Viva 202 Housing Refurbished

Arquitectura Viva 202 Housing Refurbished

In Short. The Danish master Jørn Utzon would have turned 100 years old this year; Renzo Piano wraps up the Palais de Justice in Paris, winner of the Équerre d’Argent; Juan Herreros inaugurates the Ágora-Bogotá convention center; MAD builds a residential complex in Huangshan (China); Vector architects creates a hotel out of an old sugar mill in Yangshuo (China); Kengo Kuma raises a cultural village within a forest in Portland (USA); Bjarke Ingels designs new grounds for Google; Herzog & de Meuron wins the competition for a masterplan in Basel; OFFICE completes its first project in Spain.Second Life. Peripheries are neither as anonymous nor as dysfunctional as was thought. Nor are they really ‘new’: in some cases they need refurbishing as much as or even more than the centers do. Nevertheless, the strategies used in the outskirts differ from those that tend to be applied in city centers, less hesitant, as they are, to take aggressive action in improving the energy performance of buildings. We look at these strategies in four European projects carried out in peripheral residential developments: the transformation of 530 dwellings in Bordeaux (France) by Lacaton &Vassal, Druot, and Hutin, notable for the way it has involved the participation of the residents; the refurbishment of 709 dwellings in Lormont, also in France, by Lan architecture, which enhances the attributes of the modern block; the revamping of Kleiburg de Flat in Amsterdam by NL Architects and XVW architectuur, winner of the Mies van der Rohe Award; and the renovation of Block XII in Camp Redó (Palma de Mallorca) by NIU arquitectura, which efficiently updates the facade and the technical cores.Three Masters. The Arquia/maestros series of DVDs now for the first time presents three non-Spanish architects, all of them Pritzker laureates: Álvaro Siza (Portugal), Eduardo Souto de Moura (Portugal), and Renzo Piano (Italy). Luis Fernández-Galiano goes through their careers in three essays analyzing Siza’s poetic discipline, Souto de Moura’s melancholy materiality, and Piano’s luminous lightness.Ecological Utopia. Three books turn the limelight on Whole Earth Catalog, now 50 years old, in times of growing environmental awareness. Also: an in-depth analysis of the figure of Caramuel and his oblique architecture, and monographs on Robbrecht en Daem and estudio.entresitio.Dossier: Copper. Not until after the first Industrial Revolution did copper take on a strategic role in architecture. Copper has an edge over other metals thanks to its versatility, durability, resistance, malleability, and sustainable production. This is explained by Enrique Ramírez Sánchez in a technical article followed by constructional analysis of three works where copper is a prominent material: a research center in Copenhagen (Denmark) built by C.F. Møller; a ferry terminal in Stockholm (Sweden) designed by Marge Arkitekter; and six dwellings in Sesto San Giovanni (Italy) constructed by Gino Guarnieri and Roberto Mascazzini.To close, Mario Carpo analyzes the machines of the second digital revolution, highlighting the pioneership of architects.

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